Ableton lets you import .mid files which can be easily created from western notation using MuseScore. I use Ableton as my DAW and if I want to write something in staff notation I just write it in MuseScore (because it's got a good interface for it anyway) and export it as a midi file which I import into Ableton. For the kind of music that I make, though, there's rarely a need to write anything down. I know the parts in my head, I hit record, I start playing.
There are M4L devices that allegedly let you use notation in Live, but I could never get them to work. You've probably looked into them already, but I mention it just in case.
MIDI data can easily be converted into western score notation and vice-versa. You can write a musical score in western notation using MuseScore, export it as a MIDI file, and then import that into Ableton and see it on the piano roll. It's all one big "the map is not the territory" situation. The same piece of music is still the same piece of music whether it's written in staff notation, programmed into a sequencer in some proprietary format, written out in LSDJ code on a GameBoy, drawn in a piano roll, or played from memory by someone who doesn't know how to read any of those.
yeah, but just because a program can function as an adapter between two formats doesn't mean the person who wrote the music understands the intricacies of italian dynamic markings or the connotations of notation style. By the same logic any translation of a non-english novel is equivalent. Buh-buh
I couldn't handle Steam Link on WiFi. For anything beyond Stardew Valley and Rimworld the sudden quality drops and latency were too jarring. After setting up an additional gigabit switch for the bedroom and running some Cat5e it works well enough for most FPSs.
There's little reason to commit a whole Arduino board to a project when you can easily flash the Arduino bootloader onto an ATMega and embed one in your gadget. I think I own exactly two Arduinos: an UNO SMD edition that I use for flashing bootloaders on ATMegas and programming ATTinys, and a regular UNO that I stuck a ZIF socket on that I use to program ATMegas.
By far the nicest thing I have ever eaten was impala. This was from a restaurant, before I started restricting my diet, but I would love to go and hunt me some of those.
Eliminating factory farmed meat from my diet is an aspirational thing for me; right now I don't have the available time or mental energy to commit to planning my diet to actually achieve that. Taking up deer hunting certainly helped me get closer to that goal, but mainly I just try to have no more than one serving of meat on any given day and go completely meatless several days a week.
You can go and buy free range chicken meat at plenty of grocery stores - they are still not ideal from a animal suffering point of view, but its just a change that requires money, and rarely more.
Otherwise, look at the farmer's market at your local community center. A lot of them have close to ethically grown chicken meat.
Just so you know, free range is an industry term that doesn’t mean anything:
> The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) requires that chickens raised for their meat have access to the outside in order to receive the free-range certification.[6] There is no requirement for access to pasture, and there may be access to only dirt or gravel . Free-range chicken eggs, however, have no legal definition in the United States. Likewise, free-range egg producers have no common standard on what the term means.
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_range . Basically “free range“ just means that the place where the chickens are housed has a door on it and that the chickens can use this door themselves. That’s it. There could be a fenced-in cement pad on the other side of the door, or it could be an open field, the standard doesn’t care.
One strange consequence of our food industry is that whole, uncooked chicken is more expensive than packages of just chicken breasts, and is the same price as a cooked rotisserie whole chicken all at the same store. Anything specialty, such as "organic" or free range, will add quite a bit on top of that.
Packages of uncooked chicken parts (breasts or thighs) at the grocery store in my experience vary a lot from day to day. I try to buy a large amount when it's on sale for under $2/lb, but depending on the day, brand, and size of package, you can easily spend double, maybe even triple without any particular benefit.
Yeah, my research (several years old at this point) is that free range is like 50% more expensive than "normal" chicken and organic + free range is like double the price of "normal" chicken. So, yes, way more expensive.
This does not match the experience of my friends and relatives who live in rural areas. It's not like this meat is coming from the city. It starts out in the country, and it can be found there. I think it's likely that there are more sources than you think nearby you, and not at any more of a distance than you already go for many other things.
What? I grew up in a small town in the country and you get to know the butchers and farmers.
Now I'm from Canada where we have less in the way of factory farms, but all of the farmers I'd known preferred to have their cattle graze and chickens run the lot... that's the default.
(I know: as kids we used to sneak around the farmer's grazing fields and mess with the cow fences—see who could take the [mild] electric shock the longest by holding onto the wire...)
Maybe in places where they raise no animals at all—but I imagine that's relatively sparse in much of the continent. I'd have to look that up, mind you.
??? I just go down to Bud's Meats, a locker in our small town. Get half a beef or a pig and put it in my freezer, raised on pasture by local farmers. Hand-raised lamb by Lois on her sheep farm.
I really want to switch for this reason, but I've naively come to rely on Chrome's saved passwords feature. What I really need is a tool to migrate my saved passwords from Google to Firefox or some other service.
lastpass has a lot of import / export options as far as I remember, so that might be a good place to start... but once you get them imported you should be able to export them to another service easily enough.
ive moved to bitwarden a few months ago and it is far superior and a lot less bloated than lastpass.
The longbox was the original standardized packaging format for CDs, but since the longbox itself was disposable -- the actual CD was stored in a plastic "jewel case" inside, you were supposed to keep the plastic case and throw away the longbox -- there was an outcry against them as wasteful packaging. (See for instance this article, from 1990: https://ew.com/article/1990/04/20/whats-cd-longbox/)
The recording industry loved the longbox, because it supposedly made CDs harder to shoplift. But for an industry that generally likes to consider itself progressive, being the target of protests by environmentalists was a bad look. So by the early '90s they'd given up on the longbox, dropping it completely and just shipping the CD in the plastic "jewel case" by itself.
The longbox CD package format meant that retailers could use their existing LP storage bins to sell CDs as well during the transition period. The CD jewel case was visible above the shelves below it.
As retailers installed dedicated CD shelving systems, the longbox format was abandoned.
I really loved the Sansa Clip but the battery in it failed on me and I never did replace the thing. Sad to hear that they stopped making them because being reminded about it makes me want to pick up a new one.
